Mine clearance operation on the front of the school. Three days before a call for a strike which resonates in all school circles, from teachers to nurses, from school heads to inspectors, in the public and the private sector, the first as the second degree, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, came on the set of the “20 hours” of France 2, Monday January 10, to announce a « simplification » – on three points – of the health screening protocol. This same protocol which, since returning from the Christmas holidays, concentrates criticism from the educational community and from overwhelmed parents.
First point, now, if a child is declared positive for Covid in a class, “We will not immediately ask the parents to come and get theirs on the grounds that it is a contact case, Mr. Castex said. We will wait until the end of the day or the school trip. »
Second inflection: when a child is declared positive, his classmates, contact cases, will have to perform three self-tests, once morest an antigen test or PCR followed by two self-tests currently. Enough to simplify the procedure which has put thousands of families to the test since returning from vacation. The distribution of self-tests, free of charge, will however continue to be done through pharmacies, upon presentation of a certificate from the school.
“The interests of the children”
Third point: a single certificate indicating that the self-test is negative will be requested from families, ” once for all “, once morest one in each test today. “Our goal is to keep schools as open as possible, because we all know that it is in the best interests of the children”, a martelé M. Castex.
Something to reassure parents and reduce queues in front of pharmacies and laboratories? No doubt – as long as the self-tests are well distributed on time. But enough to dispel the union front which, from SNUipp-FSU to SGEN-CFDT via SNES-FSU and SE-UNSA, calls, Thursday, January 13, for a national strike? Nothing is less sure.
Monday evening, the tension even seemed to have risen a notch in the circles of teachers. “The changes announced do not meet our expectations, a reacted Guislaine David, spokesperson for SNUipp-FSU, the majority union at the primary level, which was the first to call for mobilization. They continue to explain to us that the more contamination we have at school, the more we reduce. This is exactly the opposite of what should be done at this stage of the epidemic! ” His union is calling for the return to the closure of a class in the first case of Covid identified within it, as was the case before the epidemic situation got carried away, at the beginning of December.
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